Electronic Lit and Online Performance Art

Please answer the following questions in an approx. 3/4 to 1 page concept proposal . The proposal should be typed, double-spaced, and follow standard paragraph formatting. Use complete sentences throughout. First, read the Experiment Guidelines. 1) What is the main purpose of your intervention? Is it political? Is it cultural criticism or cultural commentary? Is it playful or prank-like? Is it meta in some way? 2) What is the intended venue or platform you plan to intervene in? (Make sure it's a space with an active conversation occurring). 3) What is your strategy for intervening? What language do you plan to use? Questions? Statements? What tone will your piece adopt (satirical, serious, humorous, etc)? 4) What is the audience's role in your intervention? How do you anticipate they might respond? 5) What are your plans if things go awry? Do you have a back-up strategy you can employ? 6) How do you plan to document your intervention? Will you record it on video...

Angela Washko's work While Twitter and YouTube performances often explore the performance of identity as much as they do the artist's political leanings, intervention into digital spaces artworks often have a directly political aim: to transform and disrupt the online spaces the artists interject themselves into.  The spaces that artists have interjected themselves into are as diverse as Craig's List, online live action role playing games, Reddit, Facebook, what have you. Any online space where people interact, that is public, can be "intervened" in, with varying consequences. Often, it is the spaces themselves (or more precisely, the politics of the people who inhabit them) that the artists take issue with; it is no coincidence that two of the spaces that two of the artists you are learning about this week are spaces that deal with gaming and war.     In early 2012 Angela Washko founded "The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavio...